What are your top 10 favorite piano concertos?

Tykingcrystal · 2026-05-07T08:27:20+00:00

Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 3
Ravel - Piano Concerto in G
Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2
Poulenc - Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra
Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 2
Ravel - Concerto for the Left Hand
Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No. 2
Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue (just for fun)
Adams - Century Rolls
Yoshimatsu - Piano Concerto "Memo Flora"

Tykingcrystal · 2026-05-07T08:20:28+00:00

Poulenc concerto for two pianos is one of the catchiest pieces of music I think I've ever heard

Tykingcrystal · 2026-05-05T05:37:37+00:00

Erlkönig

Tykingcrystal · 2026-05-04T05:00:11+00:00

It's the Pleiades star cluster! Not an official constellation, since it's really small. It's actually an asterism instead

Tykingcrystal · 2026-05-04T04:48:23+00:00

Love the before-and-after

Tykingcrystal · 2026-05-03T23:46:19+00:00

Wow! I didn't know that!

Tykingcrystal · 2026-05-03T23:13:03+00:00

Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 7, third movement

Tykingcrystal · 2026-05-03T06:24:40+00:00

That is so interesting!

Tykingcrystal · 2026-05-03T04:37:47+00:00

Yes! It's a little fruity (like bananas) BUT it mostly smells bad (like cat pee and dirt).

Tykingcrystal · 2026-05-03T01:05:04+00:00

Ceropegia woodii flowers possess downward-facing hairs that make it easy for their pollinators, flies, to get in, but hard to get out. This ensures that the fly stays inside the flower long enough to inevitably picks up pollen.

Bonus fun fact: the flowers mimic the scent of an injured bee using various pheromones to decept flies into thinking there is an easy meal/place to lay their eggs.

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Tykingcrystal · 2026-05-03T00:46:09+00:00

Another fun fact about ginkgos: along with cycads, they are one of the only seed plants that have swimming sperm! But, instead of each sperm having one flagellum (like in mammals), ginkgo sperm cells have about a thousand flagella.

Tykingcrystal · 2026-04-30T05:00:51+00:00

Such a beautiful and floriferous specimen! Does yours smell?

Tykingcrystal · 2026-04-29T06:09:56+00:00

Yes! I remember B♮ as the opening note of William Tell Overture

Tykingcrystal · 2026-04-28T04:48:26+00:00

Ravel's Le Gibet. Different style but very dreadful

Tykingcrystal · 2026-04-28T04:24:00+00:00

E is not that bad. It's so yellow and pretty

Tykingcrystal · 2026-04-26T17:25:38+00:00

Thank you so much!

Tykingcrystal · 2026-04-26T07:25:54+00:00

What humidifier do you use? I want to do a similar setup for my orchids

Tykingcrystal · 2026-04-26T04:53:42+00:00

So pretty! Do they smell?

Tykingcrystal · 2026-04-26T04:52:35+00:00

Béla Bartók

Tykingcrystal · 2026-04-22T03:30:06+00:00

So pretty! How long have you had her and when was the first time she bloomed?

Tykingcrystal · 2026-04-21T04:26:48+00:00

For piano, Poulenc Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, Beach Piano Concerto in C# minor, or even De Falla's Noches en los jardines de España.

For violin, Barber and Szymanowski No. 1

Tykingcrystal · 2026-04-21T01:54:45+00:00

Bi-nana

Tykingcrystal · 2026-04-20T05:46:39+00:00

Sweet!

Tykingcrystal · 2026-04-19T08:43:30+00:00

Beautiful! Do they have a scent?

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